Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be difficult to decide whether base-ball or cricket is the more scientific so far as the relations of the batsman and the bowler or pitcher are concerned. I note that so far as the actual contest between ball and ball is concerned, the two games seem fairly equal. Though in base-ball pitching, a more difficult scientific problem is involved, it cannot be said that the play to meet the curving ball is more difficult than the play to meet the, varying pitch and break of well-bowled balls at cricket. In base-ball curves there...
...written, may be found in the office at U. 5. It is the duty, as well as the interest, of every one who has not yet taken the trouble to make out a list of his courses, to do so at once, as it will be very difficult to take notice of those courses which are handed in after tomorrow. Pamphlets relating to the various courses may also be had at the office. The freshmen should take especial pains to select their courses, for the inconvenience which is brought upon the instructors by thoughtlessness, is no little matter...
...differences between the new and old-time modes of teaching English literature. Formerly the students were crammed with facts and dates, such as the time when the authors were born and died, and the names and dates of publication of their principal works. Anything more worthless than this is difficult of conception. Today a practical acquaintance with the works of the authors is the object sought...
...long is this complaining nursery chatter to continue? The wholesale undignified censure which the Harvard press has of late visited upon Yale and the "old ally" is a matter of regret and difficult to account for. Is it to be wondered at that the professional press greedily fills its columns with sensational and distorted accounts of events and perchance indiscretions which occur in college life, when a college press allows itself to make representations and insinuations which, if appearing anywhere else, would be branded as false and utterly baseless. If the Harvard press must abrogate to itself the powers...
...closing let me say that the Club expects to sing in the yard during June at least once a week. It is a difficult matter to get the fellows together oftener than that during the examination period...